Compliance Operations Director

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Job Purpose 

As the Director Operational Compliance, you will have a significant role in the implementation of the different regulatory and legal frameworks across our different licensed entities.  Ensuring that we build customer centric processes whilst maintaining the highest standards of compliance. Helping to enable sustainable growth in the business

What we expect of you, day to day

• Lead our Group Operational Compliance function. Including managing

  • transaction monitoring and screening,

  • new business onboarding,

  • operational fraud management

• Develop and improve the operational processes required to ensure the business is compliant with relevant regulation, is managing its risk and creating fantastic customer experiences.

• Ensure that the key operational metrics are defined, and made available to the business.

• Collaborate closely with colleagues in the 2nd line financial crime teams to ensure global policies and standards effectively mitigate financial crime risk and deliver a best-in-class experience for our clients.

• Input into the design and improvement of financial crime systems and controls. 

• Input into risk appetite decisions.

• Own and lead on the delivery of key financial crime improvement projects.

• Support the global compliance leadership with both internal and external financial crime audit and assessments.

To apply for this role, we are looking for someone that has at least 3 years within Financial Crime Prevention within the financial services industry. We will also require the following

• Strong knowledge of global financial crime regulations with deep expertise in one or more jurisdictions.
• Experience of designing and implementing effective financial crime control frameworks.
• Comfortable working with data
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including teams outside of the compliance function.
• Excellent negotiator with the ability to bring teams and people with diverse ways of thinking together.
• Ability to work in a fast paced and time sensitive environment and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.